Being Prepared Could Save Your Pet’s Life In An Emergency! July 26, 2005 is a day Mehernaz will never forget. Stuck at office whilst Mumbai was submerged, Mehernaz could not get home for the next two days. Sitting at her desk, miles away from home, she worried about her two dogs alone at home […]
NCPA keeps the festive mood going in the New Year with ‘An Evening of Two Comedies’ – namely ‘Bicharo Burjor’ by Yazdi Karanjia and ‘Police Station Ma Dhamaal’ by Rustom Irani – scheduled for Khordad Sal on Thursday, 22nd August, 2019. With a total runtime of 105 minutes for both plays, ‘Bicharo Burjor’ is a rip-roaring comedy by […]
As Israel Philharmonic Bids An Emotional Farewell . completion of his impressive 50-year tenure, as Musical Director of the world renowned Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO), in Tel Aviv’s Yarkon Park. The grassy expanse of the Yarkon Park was filled with an enormous crowd of young and old, who rose almost simultaneously as the charismatic maestro […]
NCPA presents ‘An Evening Of Two Comedies’ – two Parsi-Gujarati plays, namely ‘Bicharo Burjor’ by Yazdi Karanjia and ‘Police Station Ma Dhamaal’ by Rustom Irani, on the occasion of Parsi New Year and Khordad Sal. A rip-roaring comedy, ‘Bicharo Burjor’ by the Yazdi Karanjia Drama Group from Surat, features Yazdi Karanjia, Vira Karanjia, Shehzad Karanjia, Mehernosh Karanjia and others. This […]
‘A world without the Beatles is infinitely worse’, we are told at one point in this film. Worse than what, we aren’t told. Doesn’t matter, because the film is about the Beatles, though not exactly. Confused? Then read on… Jack Malik (Himesh Patel) is an amateur singer, working in a cash-and-carry in a coastal town in […]
Some weeks ago, we received a mail at Parsi Times from a lovely animal and dog love, Hufrez Mistry, who sought our help in putting out an appeal to help house ‘Whitey’, a senior dog whose time at the foster-home assistance was running out and needed to be re-housed on an urgent basis. Of course, […]
There is a school of thought which says that seven years is a turning point in romantic relationships, especially marriage. So is the fabled seven-year itch for real? It was the title of a 1955 Marilyn Monroe film in which she seduces her married neighbour. Films are fiction, pure entertainment. But today, there’s an unsettling […]